Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held secret ravines and merciless crevices. One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a lonely goatherd, but fifty tons of express-delivery snow.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.